IEEE Weekly Puzzle #1 – Thirty Couples

13 October 2015 Comments Off on IEEE Weekly Puzzle #1 – Thirty Couples

Sixty people, consisting of 30 couples, are standing side by side randomly. For any couple, when we add up the number of people that can be standing between the two partners, what is the maximum sum?

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This question was prepared by Emrehan Halıcı, president of the Turkey Intelligence Foundation, for Bilkent IEEE.